• pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
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    4 months ago

    Yes. And I feel sad because I haven’t been excited on any other OS for years after learning NixOS. I used to be excited about playing with things like FreeBSD, but now they all feel like something’s missing…

    Not for everybody, but as a software engineer nix/nixos is blessing.

  • TheWordBotcher@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    As someone who has never tried Linux, this meme has done more to make me want to give it a try than anything else Linux users have thrown at me so far. The fox is very convincing. I might step into the back of an unmarked van if it asked me to.

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    4 months ago

    Don’t listen to him! Just start using Nix to manage dependencies and dev environments for your projects but keep your OS the same until you are really good at Nix

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    4 months ago

    I’d been hearing a lot about NixOS so I did a VM install. It wanted me to setup my own partitions manually without even giving preset sane defaults like I was back in 1994 installing Slackware.

    Nope. My OS is a tool, not a lifestyle.

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    4 months ago

    I actually got NixOS after the latest time I tried it. But I also got that I don’t want it, Arch is much simpler in all the good ways.

    And perhaps something like https://github.com/kiviktnm/decman can some day give us part of Nix’s power without going all-in with the functional declarative thingamadoodle.

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    I tried it once and gave up after realizing the necessary mental gymnastics to do simple things like installing something.